Kalamazoo Public Safety Assistant Chief Don Webster said on Monday that officers may pursue a charge of brandishing a weapon in public against the man that police say acted belligerent and began cursing when approached by officers.

"Charges are still being discussed," Webster said Monday morning.

Officers were called to Cork Street Coin
Laundry, 823 E. Cork St., at 4:05 p.m. on a report of a man who
appeared to be intoxicated openly carrying a rifle outside of the laundromat.

Kalamazoo Public
Safety Lt. Stacey Geik told the Kalamazoo Gazette that the potential of the man
being intoxicated prompted an officer to be dispatched to the scene to
try to speak with the man.

"(The officer) asked the guy if he
could talk to him and the guy went into an (expletive)-laden tirade,
'the revolution's coming, I don't have to talk to you, etcetera,
etcetera,'" Geik said.

Officers
eventually convinced the man to set down his gun and officers seized it. Geik said the man was informed he would have his weapon
returned to him if he would agree to submit to a breathalyzer test,
which he repeatedly refused.

Webster said Kalamazoo Public Safety still has the gun, but it will be returned to the man at some point on Monday. Incidents like this are pretty rare in the city of Kalamazoo, Webster said.

"We have only had a few cases of open carrying like this, but across the country this seems to be an issue," he said.